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July 28, 2019, 11:02 AM
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Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal:
Inside the complex negotiations over the deal that is about to transform Dish into the fourth national wireless carrier in the US  —  Charlie Ergen, the poker-playing billionaire who co-founded Dish Network, has been hoarding airwaves for years.  Now the U.S. government is handing him the cards he needs to make his play.
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
How Famous Birthdays, which has 20M unique monthly users, became Gen Z's Wikipedia for new internet stars and a talent resource for the entertainment industry  —  If you want to know who the biggest TikTok star is right now, who is in Emma Chamberlain's squad, or where Baby Ariel grew up …
Jane Zhang / South China Morning Post:
Source: TikTok owner ByteDance has acquired UK-based AI startup Jukedeck, whose software can autonomously compose music, for an undisclosed amount  —  Deal raises potential for TikTok to make AI-powered music composition widely accessible around the world The initiative raises the potential …
Jeff Stone / CyberScoop:
Since last year, UK and Netherlands police have been pushing young first-time accused cybercriminals into ethical computer training, instead of threatening jail  —  European authorities are testing out the idea that not every cybercrime investigation has to end with a hacker in handcuffs.
More: ZDNet
Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik:
BMW makes Apple CarPlay an $80/year subscription service for new car owners  —  From the 2019 model year onward any new BMW sold will require the owner to pay an $80 annual fee in order to connect their Apple iTelephone device to their premium luxury automobile.
Jonathan Vanian / Fortune:
Q&A with Satya Nadella on fostering Sony's success with Azure, the role of Xcloud in Microsoft's strategy to expand games beyond the living room, and more  —  Satya Nadella has never considered himself a “gamer,” but Civilization did manage to capture the attention of the Microsoft CEO for a stretch when he was younger.
Uri Berkovitz / Globes Online:
Israel-based vCita, which is developing a business management app and CRM system for very small businesses, raises $15M  —  The Israeli company has developed a business management app and CRM system for very small businesses.  —  Israeli business management app developer for small businesses vCita …
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Spectral MD, a Dallas-based startup developing an AI-powered burn and wound imaging system, raises $27M in research funding from the US Department of Health  —  Spectral MD, a Dallas, Texas-based startup developing an AI-powered burn and wound imaging system, today announced that it's secured $27 million …

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The Hollywood Reporter:
The Sky-ITV deal raises questions about US ownership of the UK's largest commercially funded free-to-air network and a key part of its cultural landscape

Alex Ritman / Variety:
AI-focused studio Particle 6 plans a full-length feature film to be led by the AI “actor” Tilly Norwood, as a hybrid production using film and TV professionals

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is studying its data to see why viewers quit its shows after S1, with some shows seeing a 30%-70% S2 drop, as it faces a quarter without hits

More News

Micah Singleton / Billboard:
Profile of Oliver Schusser, who spent 15 years at Apple building iTunes' worldwide operations from the ground up and took charge of Apple Music 15 months ago
Paul Mozur / New York Times:
How both sides in Hong Kong's protests use facial recognition as a weapon, with police using it for repression, and protesters using it to doxx police officers

Earlier Picks

Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Many young Instagram users have turned their accounts into “business” profiles to get detailed analytics by providing their phone number or email to the public
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Interview with Facebook's ex-CSO Alex Stamos about the Stanford Internet Observatory, funded in-part by $5M from Craig Newmark, for monitoring online abuse
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins sentenced to time served and one year of supervised release for writing and selling the Kronos banking malware
Liam Tung / ZDNet:
A developer based in Crimea and one based in Iran say that GitHub has “restricted” their accounts “due to US trade controls”
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft is rolling out a new chat-based Cortana UI for Windows 10 as a beta to Windows Insiders in the US, with support for text and voice queries
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